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Wow I'm learning today that Github used Redis for persistent data, now that they moved away :-) Anyway very happy that Redis helped to run such an important site. From the blog post it looks like that for certain things to move away from Redis was hard even if they are very skilled with MySQL, this is a good thing from the POV of Redis since it means that Redis allows to model certain things easily. However they want…
Wow I'm learning today that Github used Redis for persistent data, now that they moved away :-) Anyway very happy that Redis helped to run such an important site. From the blog post it looks like that for certain things to move away from Redis was hard even if they are very skilled with MySQL, this is a good thing from the POV of Redis since it means that Redis allows to model certain things easily. However they want…
FWIW we went through a very similar process to that documented here by Github (~3 months ago). It was entirely due to operational reasons and nothing to with shortcomings in Redis itself. MySQL was the master record for 99% of our data while Redis was the master record for the other 1% (as it happens it was also a kind of activity stream). Having the single 'master' reference for our data reduced complexity to a degr…
but how do you make sure that multiple of your db systems are in sync (specifically interested in MySql and elasticsearch)?
Hope it's alright to ask you that.
I wonder if this will allow better scaling of GitHub enterprise. We are pegging our usage; if we could we would migrate everything to Gitlab Enterprise (which we also have) which seems to have better scalability.
Wow I'm learning today that Github used Redis for persistent data, now that they moved away :-) Anyway very happy that Redis helped to run such an important site. From the blog post it looks like that for certain things to move away from Redis was hard even if they are very skilled with MySQL, this is a good thing from the POV of Redis since it means that Redis allows to model certain things easily. However they want…
Pretty cool that redis was helping to host its own source code & development.
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Reading more into this point in the post than i maybe should but "Take advantage of our expertise operating MySQL." sounds like they have more engineers familiar and comfortable working with MySQL than they are with Redis.
That's a valid reason indeed. Also technological consolidation, that is, if I can do everything with a single DB / language / ... I always tend to use a single thing.
Wow I'm learning today that Github used Redis for persistent data, now that they moved away :-) Anyway very happy that Redis helped to run such an important site. From the blog post it looks like that for certain things to move away from Redis was hard even if they are very skilled with MySQL, this is a good thing from the POV of Redis since it means that Redis allows to model certain things easily. However they want…
Pretty cool that redis was helping to host its own source code & development.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a valid reason indeed. Also technological consolidation, that is, if I can do everything with a single DB / language / ... I always tend to use a single thing.
Watch how far you generalize that view. I realize that "I can do everything with a single...language" can make "everything" mean anything. I had a coworker that helped a middle eastern country with security software. He went full Javascript on it: Node, Mongo, etc. It worked. JS did everything. While he didn't go into details, afterwards he thought it was a bad idea. A great learning experience on when to define "eve…
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Watch how far you generalize that view. I realize that "I can do everything with a single...language" can make "everything" mean anything. I had a coworker that helped a middle eastern country with security software. He went full Javascript on it: Node, Mongo, etc. It worked. JS did everything. While he didn't go into details, afterwards he thought it was a bad idea. A great learning experience on when to define "eve…
just wondering why Mongo is considered a part of "JS". Is it because of the MEAN stack?
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Watch how far you generalize that view. I realize that "I can do everything with a single...language" can make "everything" mean anything. I had a coworker that helped a middle eastern country with security software. He went full Javascript on it: Node, Mongo, etc. It worked. JS did everything. While he didn't go into details, afterwards he thought it was a bad idea. A great learning experience on when to define "eve…
just wondering why Mongo is considered a part of "JS". Is it because of the MEAN stack?